Hi dear COMO® fans, today let’s deal with the COMOgiraffe. It is the first giraffe build of toy bricks that is movable. This giraffe in the big brick format is especially joyful for children in the age from 2 to 4 years. Older children may build giraffes using COMO®+ plates with studs and bricks of the small format, e.g. using Q-Bricks®.

What do we need?

Do you and your children also love to admire the giraffes with their long necks and their long legs in the zoo? It’s always amazing to watch them eating from the top leaves of a tree, isn’t it?

Now you can bring our giraffe to life in your children’s room. That’s the beginning of your zoo. You need 20 yellow and 8 brown or red bricks of the big format with two by four studs. We always take Buggi® bricks, but it should work well with many more brands, too. Furthermore, you need 8 COMO® plates with holes.

Here is our “list of parts” in short:

20 yellow bricks with two by four studs,

8 brown bricks with two by four studs, and

8 COMO® plates with holes

How do I build a movable COMO Giraffe?

By the way. Do you like to eat sandwiches with your children. If yes, then you have probably prepared them with your children. So our children can easily use this technique for building our DUPLO giraffe.

The first layer

First, we put the first layer of bricks so that we can already guess where the head, the neck, the body and the long legs will be.

lay the first layer of bricks with the studs showing upwards

The second layer comes here

Second you “put the butter or the mayonnaise on your bread”, i.e. you put the COMO® plates on the bricks so that you connect the single bricks with each other. You can see what to do exactly in picture No 2.

the second layer comprises COMO® plates with holes

And layer number three …

Third we “put the salami or cheese on our bread.” Put again a layer of bricks on the plates, but this time the studs have to show to the plates. Where you want the giraffe to have brown flecks, you use a brown or red brick.

take again bricks for the third layer – this time with studs showing downwards

The fourth and last layer

Our giraffe’s body can’t be as thin as its legs. So build on another layer of bricks on each side of the belly. And there is your giraffe.

the fourth layer of bricks makes the bellow of the giraffe thick

Ideas for playing with the COMO giraffe

Now you can move almost every part of the giraffe, the neck, the legs and even the tail. Perhaps you can build another giraffe. Life is much more fun if you have a friend. Let them trot across your children’s room’s savanna. I am sure you can easily build a tree where your giraffes can eat the leaves from. Here your giraffes can crane their necks upwards.

the COMO giraffe in its full glory

When they have eaten enough, they can sit down and relax on their hind legs or take a short nap. One of your giraffes is perhaps a talented giraffe which lives in a circus. It is able to put its forelegs on a stool or it can catch rings with its long neck. What kind of tricks can your giraffe show us?

Further ideas for playing

Sure that you can create many more animals with the bricks form your box. What about bringing a butterfly to life which then will fly on the giraffe’s nose? – Atishoo! You can also find elephants in the savanna.

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Our last hint for you:

You can admire a three dimensional model of the COMO giraffe following this link in case that you need more information for building:

touch on this picture – on the next page there you can rotate the shown giraffe into any position using your finger

We recommend you to buy the “COMO® Set movable models” if you like to build the COMO® giraffe. This set is available here:

click on this picture to buy in the COMO shopclick or touch on this picture and go to Amazon

Buy colorful BUGGI® bricks in many colors and for a good price at our partner Buggi Toys:

let’s go to BUGGI®

Legal note: COMO® is a registered trade mark of the company Spartas UG, i.e. of the owner of this web page and of this web site. The Spartas UG is an independent enterprise. BUGGI® is a registered trade mark of Buggi Toys GmbH. Q-BRICKS® is a registered trade mark of Q-BRICK-SERVICE srl unipersonale.

The professional journal “SPIELZEUG international” (TOYS international) comprises many editorial articles on 16 pages about the special theme “construction toys” in its issue of May 2018. The COMO® products of the company Spartas UG are presented on page 49 of this issue.

“SPARTAS – at most creative”

This is the translation of the article:

The start up Spartas from Munich presents its new “Como bricks” on kick starter. The bricks are compatible with the blocks of the big format of a known manufacturer. There are advanced possibilities for building thanks to special bricks as the brick of ideas and the connection bricks. Children can create movable models using “Como bricks“. Furthermore, it is possible to build in six directions.

The “Como KiGa Set” gives scope for building of movable models – for children as well as for educators

“Como bricks” are appropriate for free, creative building because you can built – without the limitation of many known construction set systems – into all directions. Thus, children are able to create creative according to their own imaginations.

Note: The project is live on kick starter until May 29th, 2018.

Experience an all new way to create by checking out COMO® on kickstarter.com and choosing the exclusive movable or Christmas tree package for your child: https://kck.st/2w5FMOP

Now we are running our marathon on kick starter. Thanks to our first three backers from Arabia, Germany and Japan. Thus we have orders of EUR 240, i.e. about 1 percent of our aim. Within the first couple of days I was a little bit tired. But I woke up and I am hitting the ground running now again with posting in blogs and press portals.

By the way: I run the marathon three times: Berlin (1985, streets were hard to run but I was young), Rennsteig (1990, whole distance within the wood, rangy but very nice) and Salzburg (2006, with family and friends, great thing)

Munich, April 16th, 2018. Your dad or grandpa may tell you what a kick starter is at a motor bike … On the internet such a kick starter device is also available for small companies that start to sell their products – as we are doing now with the COMO® and COMO®+ products.

Within a group we have much more fun

However, the kick starter on the internet does much more. You all know a school of fish or a swarm of birds. People also like to make swarms which are better known as groups. Somehow many things are easier to do in groups and then we have much more fun. Our kick starter on the internet will start for the same reason only then when a crowd of about 500 children wants to have the movable COMO® set or the COMO® Christmas tree. Only then the fun to be one of the first is on its peak and there are enough children from many countries that can exchange their ideas for building with other children.

How you get to kick starter

Then search for “DUPLO Format” and select a backer packet. Register and that’s all.

COMO is going to kick starter

The packets (pledges) on kick starter

The packet “COMO® movable set” for EUR 50 comprises among other things 20 of the new COMO® plates with holes. With these new plates you may build simple movable figures freely according to your fantasy for the first time. Start with a horse, a lobster or a swan.

The supporter package “COMO® Christmas tree big”for 60 EUR comprises the big Christmas tree of a height of about 40 cm. Furthermore, 4 of the new COMO® bricks of ideas are comprised within this set. You may build on onto 6 sides. This is three times more compared to the known bricks. Your fantasy will be happy and your spatial thinking will also grow very fast.

Smaller pledges of EUR 10 or EUR 15 are also possible. Every pledge will be a big support for the development of further COMO® products.